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Bombing at Syrian refugee camp kills at least 28 people and many more injured.
At least 28 people were killed when warplanes struck a refugee camp Thursday in Syria, the monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, with many of the dead women and children.
Rami Abdul Rahman, director of the London-based group, told the media that it was not immediately clear whether Syrian or Russian planes conducted the airstrike.
The planes attacked the Kamuna camp next to Sarmada village in the northern countryside of Idlib province on the border with Turkey, according to the observatory.
Majd Khalaf, a civil defense officer in Syria, said the number of casualties may go higher because so many people were injured. He said two jet fighters struck the camp, according to eyewitnesses the civil defense team interviewed.
Video showed tents burning while men with firehoses tried to put out blazes. Men covered and carried away bodies, and women and children lying in a truck bed wailed in anguish before a vehicle drove them away.
The bombing was part of heavy fighting that erupted in Syria a day after the United States and Russia brokered a ceasefire for Aleppo, one of the country’s most war-torn cities, and surrounding areas.
Syrian government helicopters shelled the southern countryside of Aleppo with rockets and barrel bombs, and Syrian forces targeted the road connecting the city and Damascus, the monitoring group reported. At least two people were killed and a number injured, it said.
ISIS and other militant groups are fighting in different positions in the northern countryside of Aleppo, the observatory said.
Al Qaeda-affiliated al Nusra Front and other armed groups fired rockets on residential neighborhoods in Aleppo, the monitoring group said. Islamist and militant groups shelled regime-held area in the city.
Stephen O’Brien, the U.N. aid chief, condemned the airstrike, saying thousands of Syrians have been forced to flee their homes so far this year.
“Continued fighting and airstrikes mean that vulnerable, frightened children, women and men have nowhere safe to go,” he said.
“If this obscene attack is found to be a deliberate targeting of a civilian structure, it could amount to a war crime.”
